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...Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement: his 382-year-old school's uniform is to be junked. Repton's boys, said he, are to be soundly and sensibly reclothed...
This revolutionary announcement brought many a "Hear! Hear!" from Reptonians (who said a fellow looked a bit of a chump walking over the Derbyshire moors in black-and-stripes), but startled Britain's other public schools. When a reporter for London's Daily Mail visited Eton to break the news, he found Etonians horrified at the suggestion that they change their traditional garb...
...seriously proposed that because we are suffering from a temporary access of jitters and jumps that would bring discredit upon a community of elderly nuns we should discontinue an event that is as regular a feature of our yearly calendar as the Royal Academy, the Military Tattoo, or the Eton and Harrow cricket match...
English youngsters still burst their Eton jackets giggling at Lear's Book of Nonsense. The U. S. breed find Lear's nonsense nonsensical. But Lear is essentially grownups' Mother Goose. Limericks like the Young Girl of Majorca still wow big-wigged British judges...
...Haldane, nephew of the encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...